Steve White

Crowdfund the Coronation

Wednesday 19th April 2023 8:47 am

Crowdfund the coronation
Don’t pay for it from our taxation
If you support the celebration
Then you can make a small donation

Crowdfund the coronation
But make it so that each donation
Ticks a box to just make sure
You’d rather not give to the poor

Crowdfund the coronation
Don’t pay for it from our taxation
Of which we’re told there’s such a dearth
We can’t pay nurses what they’re worth

Crowdfund the coronation
And if folk need some motivation
A celebrity-packed one day’s TV
Can raise some cash for kings in need

Crowdfund the coronation
Crowdfund the whole damn operation
The nation then with one accord
Will have the royals they can afford

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Comments

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Tue 25th Apr 2023 16:55

Bleedin' Germans from Schleswig-Holstein arf of 'em - an' it's crap lager an' all!
A load o' bleedin' forinners - send the buggers to Rwanda on' see 'ow they like it!
Claps won't pay ar nurses on' doctors bills, pay 'em a proper wage, on' gie them Krauts the sack!
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Trevor Alexander

Thu 20th Apr 2023 21:11

I'm torn with this. It's a compelling view in the light of chronic underfunding of so many of our vital services - not least the NHS and education. I do think however, that the 'pomp and ceremony' does bring value. Whether it's enough to justify the expense though.... A provocative piece Steve.

Stephen Gospage

Thu 20th Apr 2023 17:59

Thanks for this, Steve. I think that pay-per-view might be an idea, as it would require flag-waving royalists to put their money where their mouth is. You would have thought that some of the better-heeled guests could cough up something.

Thought-provoking and challenging as usual.

Stephen Atkinson

Wed 19th Apr 2023 17:52

I must admit I'm a monarchist & think they bring in/bring to the country a lot more than people realise. I think we'd be a lesser country without them. But, the way things are ( more government related than monarchy ) I think crowd funding for such events is more than worthy of note! A great piece of thought-provoking writing, as usual, Steve 🤘

M.C. Newberry

Wed 19th Apr 2023 17:02

If money is the essential theme, perhaps we should be told
how much the existence of Royalty brings to the Exchequer
each year. It is certainly likely that the sum would pay for
any coronation envisaged - not least the less formal style
apparently advocated by the new Monarch.
I like a bit of pomp and ceremony - and if the world so clearly
endorsed the arrangements for the funeral of Her Late
Majesty - a truly impressive and inspiring occasion - then we
should honour her memory by granting her son and heir a
coronation to remember with pride and respect for an
institution that has served this country well through good
times and bad. God Save The King.

John Coopey

Wed 19th Apr 2023 15:41

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pgJ8-hV5gSo&pp=ygUZSGVubmluZyB3ZWhuIHJveWFsIGZhbWlseQ%3D%3D

Steve White

Wed 19th Apr 2023 10:32

Thanks all!

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Wed 19th Apr 2023 10:29

Well written, and well said Steve.
Some of our nurses are having to choose between heating and eating.
Schoolchildren are going to school with not enough food in their bellies.
Teachers don't have the resources they need to do their job.
Schools are literally falling down around the heads of teachers and pupils.
The NHS has been deliberately trashed for ideological reasons.

The UK is a moral cesspit- an obscene joke played upon the most vulnerable of UK Citizens.

The Nursing Unions should be boycotting the Coronation, not playing the Plastic Patriot Game.
They should tell them:
"Shove your Royal Sceptre where the sun don't shine, then try to extract it with neither a nurse's nor a doctor's help, and without anaesthetic".

keith jeffries

Wed 19th Apr 2023 10:03

I must admit that I am not comfortable with the extravagance of these great national occasions when people are queueing up at food banks, the homeless figure rises, ex servicemen are living rough and those who govern the country possess enormous personal wealth. The last Royal Wedding cost the tax payer 13 million and now they don't even want to live amongst us. At a time of imposed austerity and hardship there needs to be a more prudent approach to what is being spent. At the end of the day the bill is paid for by the tax payer. (us).
Thank you for this
Keith

Tom

Wed 19th Apr 2023 09:18

Incredibly well said. 👍

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